UI students honor Paris victims

By Adam Kaz

November 19, 2015

Alexis March, senior in LAS, knows she will remember where she was on the evening of Nov. 13.“Friday night when I was driving to Chicago with my parents I found out about what was going on in Paris, the first attack, and I immediately started contacting my friends and extended family to make sure they wer...

Report reveals racism on campus

By Maggie Sullivan

May 10, 2015

By maggie sullivanstaff writerTanisha King, director of the University Tenant Unionmp, said an undergraduate professor at the University once told her as a student that, “Black people don’t go backpacking because they are poor.” In response to the comment, King said she complained to the departmen...

New app Trio lets users create videos and memes

By Madeline Galassi

April 6, 2015

Videos and memes have become increasingly popular and can be seen almost everywhere on the web. A new app, Trio, allows users to create them on their own device by choosing different multimedia from across the web. Trio, which was launched on March 4 by the company Meograph, is the first of its kind ...

University alumnus reflects on his time at the 1965 Selma protests

March 16, 2015

John Baird felt the edges of a large envelope.  He found it at his home buried in a box, wedged between newspaper front pages and term papers from his years at the University. The basement of his house in Decatur, Illinois, was his personal time capsule, and as he shuffled through its contents, he start...

Reality TV: A love, hate relationship

January 30, 2014

I would be lying if I said that I don’t keep up with the Kardashians. I would also be lying if I said that I haven’t watched at least one episode of nearly every TLC show. It seems that an overwhelming majority of Americans are viewing a wide array of reality television shows such as “The Bache...